I'd like ask about CPU loading during HD video playback. In my case mplayer takes 50-80% of CPU. As result I can see small delays continuously. Any suggestions or recommendations to improve HD video playback will be very appreciated!

The log entries are normal (although should be 1 per second all the time) - they are just the timestamps used to keep track of the location through playback so that the resume and split stream functions can work.

It sounds like you are describing the well known xine issue..... after a period of time, playback starts to get jerky... the longer the time and/or the more video files you playback the worse it gets. A Quick Reload fixes the problem. It has been postulated that it is a leak in xinelib (memory leak? can't remember), and I believe someone said that they believe it is more general than just LMCE, so perhaps it is a bug that will be fixed in 0810? Not sure, I haven't seen any of those using 0810 Alpha comment on it... but obviously, HD video is going to be effected even more....

The log entries are normal (although should be 1 per second all the time) - they are just the timestamps used to keep track of the location through playback so that the resume and split stream functions can work.

It sounds like you are describing the well known xine issue..... after a period of time, playback starts to get jerky... the longer the time and/or the more video files you playback the worse it gets. A Quick Reload fixes the problem. It has been postulated that it is a leak in xinelib (memory leak? can't remember), and I believe someone said that they believe it is more general than just LinuxMCE, so perhaps it is a bug that will be fixed in 0810? Not sure, I haven't seen any of those using 0810 Alpha comment on it... but obviously, HD video is going to be effected even more....

Hmmm... weirdly I have just been testing the latest 0810 Alpha and this problem is still there even with SD content. So as xinelib has certainly changed between 0710 and 0810 its hard to see how this could be purely a xinelib issue.

Does the xine wrapper do anything once it has kicked off playback? Or does the call to the xine library do everything from then on until playback is finished? I guess xine wrapper at least has to send the time stamp events.... just trying to think of something that could be leaking or otherwise going awry in the wrapper part, that could be causing this... doesn't seem all that likely.... unless the wrapper is constantly calling something in xinelib to keep the playback going (also doesn't seem likely) that could potentially then cause this issue.... it really is a pain!

Thanks guys for clarification! The strange thing is that. I didn't face with that problem in the past when I played just SD content and run UI2 with low resolution. Now I run UI2 without transparency with resolution 1080p. Maybe it's related somehow. If quick reloading of router help I suspect that problem should be with xine wrapper. Otherwise it won't help at all. Moreover, the same problem appears with mplayer and HD content. So, maybe it something more generic then just wrapper?